I work in a school...

"For man is born for trouble, As sparks fly upward." -Job 5:7

I keep coming back to this blog...and hoping that I will continue to build it. A lot has changed since the last post...in fact almost everything has. I am working at a new job...in Edmonton's inner city and it is a place where I suppose not many people would want to work. My office looks out over the one of the toughest and most impoverished neighborhoods in Canada. And it it is exactly where I want to be...

I lost my other job when the company I worked for went bankrupt. It was a surprise...and it left me a little rattled. The cashflow changed, and the focus of the past five years was blurred into a million questions about what, when and how the future was going to unfold. It still makes me shake my head when I realize what kind of jeopardy my future was in.

I went to a job interview in this old school. The people who met me at the office weren't sure what job I had applied for and to tell you the truth...I wasn't really sure either. The lady that interviewed me looked tired and care worn. The people in the room seemed to want to ask a thousand questions...about my resume (I have some questions too!). In the end they hired me...not because of my resume...I think...but because we had a great chat and somehow I convinced the people in that room, and especially the care worn woman that I could manage a program in their organization. That I could take it from theory and history into the present and future. It still makes me scratch my head and say...."hmmm".